Projecting risks posed to aviation safety by wildlife populations is often overlooked in airport land-use planning. However, the growing dependency on civil aviation for global commerce can require increases in capacity at airports which affect land use, wildlife populations, and perspectives on aviation safety. Our objectives were to (1) review legislation that affects airports and surrounding...

Data-Driven Inversion-Based Control (D-IBC) is a recently introduced control design method for uncertain nonlinear systems, relying on a two degree-of-freedom architecture, with a nonlinear controller and a linear controller running in parallel. In this paper, extending to the MIMO case a previous result holding for the SISO case, we derive a finite-gain stability sufficient condition for a clo...

SEATTLE – Aviation Partners announced that as of 2:56 pm PST on Sunday, January 15, 2012 its blended winglets have saved the worlds commercial and business aircraft operators an estimated three billion gallons of jet fuel. This represents a global reduction in CO2 emissions of more than 32.2 million tonnes. Aviation Partners’ winglets are now flying on more than 5,000 individual airplanes, and ...

This study examines the impacts of emissions from aviation in six source regions on global and regional temperatures. We consider the NOx-induced impacts on ozone and methane, aerosols and contrailcirrus formation and calculate the global and regional emission metrics global warming potential (GWP), global temperature change potential (GTP) and absolute regional temperature change potential (AR...

Background The production of fuels and chemicals from renewable resources is increasingly important due to the environmental concern and depletion of fossil fuel. Despite the fast technical development in the production of aviation fuels, there are still several shortcomings such as a high cost of raw materials, a low yield of aviation fuels, and poor process techno-economic consideration. In r...

G. I. Raab, A. G. Raab, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Ufa, Russia V. G. Shibakov, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia The paper is devoted to the analysis of such an important factor as deformation behavior in the simple shear conditions. It is shown that non-monotonous character of material plastic flow exerts significant influence on the intensity of initial structure refinemen...